Collecting Under The Influence
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Tomas Vokoun
2013-14 O-Pee-Chee #200
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Entering the SEVENTH season for this Sports Card Blog.
(Time really flies when you're wasting it!)
Have been absent for a few seasons here and there...
Still, the stats are adding up. Hard to believe this is post number FIVE HUNDRED.
Looking at some of the blogs that have inspired this one, along with helping to form new collecting habits.
Taking in other people's comments, observations, and all the neat trivia they share that really adds the color commentary that I feel is essential for maximum enjoyment of the hobby.
So many sets and years that it's virtually impossible to see it all.
It's often during a Google search that one of these blogs will turn up, offering an answer to the question I seek...
Also the desire to better organize our collections - And no organization system is perfect.
In many cases, the content is just as (if not more) entertaining than a sports magazine. The link list of ten blogs that discuss hockey hasn't changed - But felt it was time to taking a quick look at which blogs are still active.
So many great posts that I obviously haven't read them all.
But these were the blogs that I found myself spending the most time with when I got back into the hobby again, and was re-familiarizing myself with an overwhelming amount of new information.
Definitely see a bit of myself in the following collectors...
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Pack A Day | http://apackaday.blogspot.com/search/label/hockey
"Like
anything else, collecting baseball cards can become an addiction. Luckily for
us, it's one we've got down to a pack a day."
(1,275
posts from 2007-2018)
A great blog to supplement the habit.
Many
images on the main page no longer work...
The link filters the posts labelled
"hockey", most of which do load. |
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Pack to be Named Later | http://apacktobenamedlater.blogspot.com/
"Ripping
at least one pack of every card product ever made".
They call
themselves "ambitous". I thought they were nuts - So obviously was interested
in contributing. Quickly discovered they've opened practically every hockey-related
product I can think of... Damn.
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From The Dollar Store | https://buckstorecards.blogspot.com/
(4,178
+ posts since 2012)
Was this blog that first introduced me to the concept of
"re-packs".
Still going strong, I don't know how this guy does it...
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From The Crease | https://cardsfromthecrease.blogspot.com/
"A
blog for sharing my hockey card collecting experience, TTM sending and receiving
attempts and a blog about hockey in general."
(206
posts from 2011-2013)
Goalie card blog, so it definitely caught my attention.
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Hockey Card Obsession | http://myhockeycardobsession.blogspot.com/
"The
quest for cards, the creation of customs and the thoughts and opinions of a collector
who enjoys the hockey card hobby after all these years."
(1,252
+ posts since 2009)
Just a fantastic all-round hockey card blog.
Updated
regularly. Top notch infotainment.
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| Puck
Junk | http://puckjunk.com/
Hockey
Cards, Collectibles & Culture
Launched in 2007.
One of the
best hockey websites, period.
Sal Berry is a legend. |
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Ed Belfour
1993-94 SPX #27
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It also seems that
Eddie Belfour will be the starting goaltender of
Chainsaw and Hockey Mask - At least for this collecting season, anyway.
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